American power Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

— Christopher Hitchens

There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to…

— Federica Mogherini

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of…

— Peter Dreier

I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and…

— Howard Zinn

My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…

— Dorothy Day

“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on the merits…

— Robin D.G. Kelley

“It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority…

— Slavoj Žižek

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

— Carl Bernstein

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

— John Ratcliffe

“Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.”

— Rick Perlstein

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

— Albert Maltz

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

— Nathaniel Branden